Day 3: Sunday 6th August:  The day of Shore Leave and the 
inevitable, The Irish Bar!

  The day satrs at 07:00 with breakfast, followed by the daiy 
briefing with Nick, the first mate at 08:50.  He tells us that 
there will be shoreleave today both that afternoon and that
evening.  Great!
  We do some simple training and Main watch is shown its close
tacking stations.  Today is also the first time we climb any of
the riggin, we go up and over.  We climb up the Starboard rig
into the crows nest and then down the port side back onto the 
deck.  It's and experience not everybody enjoyed as much as I
did.

  Then to everybody's surprise we're told we're doing a happy 
hour, we have to clean the ship before we can go on shoreleave. 
Main Watch has to scrub the decks.
  Then once we're finished we've got shoreleave, but because the 
tall ships are in port Flensburg is absolutely heaving, it takes 
us neary 2 hours to get to the main street.  But anyway it's a 
nice enough walk and we arrive back in time for the 17:00hrs end of shoreleave.
  There are some very nice ships including a very big Mexican 
Ship, I can't remeber the name, but heres a photo.
Mexican Ship
A Nice Boat
  Have some dinner then it's time for the off again, however 
tonight I'm on watch at 21:00-22:00hrs, so me and Chris go for a 
walk and use the free phones, then we do our hour on watch 
before heading off to the Irsih Bar!
  We get there in time to join in most of the fun and games including the giving out of Roses between crew.
 Jenny And Sarah in the Irsih Bar
There are a couple more photos to go here but I need to rescan 
them.

Finally on The way back to the ship we had a bit of a shout 
song.  We were extremely loud and it was at this point that I 
decided that the ship with the fariy lights I could only just 
see would make a good photograph so here it is:
Mexican Ship in the Dark